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Sunday, October 4, 1931

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The Headlines

POPE URGES AID FOR IDLE, LAYING ILLS TO ARMS RACE; WARNS OF PERIL TO SOCIETY; ASKS 'CRUSADE OF MERCY' Encyclical Calls On All Bishops to Organize Charitable Relief. SEES DANGER IN MISERY Pontiff Fears Want May Drive Unemployed to the Point of Exasperation. HAS LONG TALK WITH CECIL Vatican City Sees Significance in Visit of British Proponent of Arms Reduction. Document Published in Paper. Denounces Arms Race. TEXT OF THE ENCYCLICAL. Crusade to Comfort Soul. Condemns Armaments Race. Exhorts to Charity. Pope Sees Lord Cecil. Pontiff Receives 30 New Yorkers.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Minnie the Moocher

Cab Calloway

The must-have

Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

damefellaswelllousy

Hardboiled

clip jointgriftershamusgunsel

Swing Era

alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove

Catchphrases of 1931

  • Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash

Tech Check

Electric Guitar, Electron Microscope & Radio Telescope.

Cost of Living (1930)

Loaf of Bread

$0.09

Gallon of Gas

$0.20

Average Home

$3,900

New Car

$640

Meanwhile

  • The Great DepressionGDP fell 30%; triggered by Black Tuesday (1929-10-29).

Time Elapsed

34,578 days ago

(94 years, 268 days)